August 11, 2009, 8:15PM

Turns out that "Reg Kneeland," the translator of Stieg Larsson's popular novels "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is Steven T. Murray, a former Seattle resident. He has an interesting story to tell Mary Ann Gwinn, the book editor of the Seattle Times, about why he used a pseudonym and what it means... Full story »

August 07, 2009, 6:19PM

Lisbeth Salander is not an easy person to like. Prickly and intensely private, the petite, tattooed title character introduced in Stieg Larsson's first novel, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is also definitely not someone you want to cross. In the first book, she helped crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist with an investigation into a decades-old disappearance and new murders.... Full story »